At a Rotary Club meeting in Florence, Ky., on Monday, McConnell painted the president as an unrealistic political novice.

“Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before,” McConnell told a small group in Florence, Ky., this week. “And I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.”

In his remarks, McConnell also lamented that “artificial deadlines” are giving the impression that Senate Republicans are underperforming after the Senate failed to repeal and replace Obamacare within the first six months of Trump’s presidency.

“No Senator,” Fox’s Sean Hannity, a close Trump confidant, tweeted late Monday night, “YOU are a WEAK, SPINELESS leader who does not keep his word and you need to Retire!”

The Senate decamped from Washington on Thursday for a four-week August recess back in their home states after failing to deliver an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill long promised by the GOP.

Trump’s tweets about McConnell were tame compared to his frequent caustic barbs against his declared foes. During the campaign, for example, Trump frequently ripped into House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., whom he referred to as a “very weak and ineffective leader.”